The mind-melting science of what shrooms do to your brain...
No one’s exactly sure why psilocybin makes you see goats in your bathroom, but it might have something to do with how your brain processes reality
The human brain goes into full weirdo mode after a handful of shrooms. It forgets how time works. It turns blank walls into geometrical works of art. It makes you believe the cucumber in your fridge is an actual God. (Or was that just me?) But why? What do shrooms do to your brain? It’s a complicated question, one that will challenge your perception of reality.
The surface-level explanation, according to researcher and philosopher Chris Letheby, author of Philosophy of Psychedelics, is that psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, stimulates serotonin 2A receptors in your brain. In a way we don’t yet fully understand, this induces the psychedelic effects commonly associated with mushies — hallucinations, transcendence of time and space, whatever’s going on between my cucumber and me.
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